Once again I am working with Amy Tangerine patterned papers, Oh how I wanted to play with those pink sequins and these papers let me make them pop! In fact, the cut apart sheet had a fun Polaroid frame printed onto part of it and it inspired me to trim it out and create a fun sequin pocket to balance out my offset photo.

I began my page by adding texture paste, though a mask, to my background.

I did not use any dimension in the sequin pocket at all, and relied on mostly stitching to hold it together. I love the way it looks! And how pretty are those tiny flower sequins!?

Do you remember back on the first of the month, the SpiegelMom Scraps team was hopping with Creative Embellishments? Well, I still had this gorgeous piece of chipboard left from the products that I was given and I was dying to use it. It inspired the theme for this page! I embossed it with this really pretty, but old embossing powder and I love the way it turned out! I trimmed the piece down a bit to better suit my layout, which is a plus because that means I still have a bit left!

I cut a pretty mint tag to fit inside one of the SpiegelMom Scraps tiny glassine bags that I got. I also got this Amy Tangerine frame from the SpiegelMom Scraps shop, which I backed with a bit of paper to help the laser cut element pop out a bit more.

I used some SpiegelMom Scraps cork embellishments to anchor my trio of embellishment clusters I finished off my page with some light blue mist splatters, journalling and a sprinkling of sequins around my layout.

Hey there! It’s Laura Whitaker with you and I am super excited to be guesting here this month! Today I am sharing a layout that features a photo of my youngest son and documents how he was born on St. Patrick’s day. But I wanted to do it without doing an actual birthday page.

So I created a shamrock background cut file and pulled in some patterned papers with softer rainbow colours as well as some SpiegelMom ScrapsPandora’s Ombre sequins, Green Acres sequins, What’s Up Buttercup sequins which coordinate perfectly with my paper choices.

As a first step, I added some green distress ink through a wood grain stencil and some white texture paste through the same stencil to add a bit of interest to my base paper, prior to layering on the cut file.

Parts of the cut file were backed with patterned papers and some were backed with clear plastic so that I could insert sequins behind them. On the layout I created for the March SpiegelMom Scraps blog hop, I shared how to make sequin shaker elements a design feature on a background. For this page I wanted to do something similar but different, this page does not need dimensional adhesive to achieve the look. You can see how to recreate this look by watching my process video, on my You-Tube channel.

I tucked this little wood veneer frame behind my photo making it another layer. As an after thought I stitched words into it and I am so glad I did I love the look! The frame is from the SpiegelMom Scraps shop.

I have had this large foam Thicker word in my stash for quite some time now, I am so glad that I was finally able to use it as it is perfect for this page!

I used some of the SpiegelMom Scraps “I Cork U” Hearts to create a shamrock that I layered over my title. I love the way it looks and that I was able to use my goodies in a variety of ways!

I also used large cork hearts to create a larger shamrock, onto which I have layered a flair.

My third embellishment cluster also uses cork (I like the repetition) but this time in the form of a cloud shape. The cloud is from the SpiegelMom Scraps shop as well and is called “Corky Cumulus”. A die cut sun, a fun flair and some more sequins round out the cluster nicely. As a last step I added in some black rub ons (super old from my stash) I think they balance the black title out nicely.

As I mentioned, I have a process video for this layout, you can watch it on my You-Tube channel here.